FOREIGN TRADE: Cinemonopoly

For the first time since Britain's
first "jumpy" was shown in 1896, the British cinema industry is in a
position to command the commercial respect of Hollywood. There are two
reasons: 1) Britain has been turning out enough four-bell films so that
U.S. movie fans do not automatically look the other way when a British
label turns up; 2) a tall, dark, retiring Briton named Joseph Arthur
Rank. Tycoon Rank is 55, well preserved, and lives as simple a life as
any man can with a 48,000-acre estateSutton Manor, in Hampshireand
another...